Navajo County Library District and its member libraries offer: Downloadable Audiobooks through OneClickDigital (Recorded Books)!

Library closed? Commuting? No time to read? No problem! Download online 24/7 and listen to over 3,000 Audiobooks for all ages on your own personal media player, PC, or laptop.

If accessing OneClickDigital remotely, when prompted enter your library card number. Then first, create your free account with OneClickDigital - link is in the top righthand corner of the screen. You can use the same log in and password you established with EbscoHost, and start listening to lots of great audiobook titles from anywhere. After you have created your account, you can just sign in with your user name and password.

Note: There are several "single-use" books in our OneClick digital library. These titles are best sellers and require special permissions and restrictions with the publishers. While there are a few thousand books that do not require any holds, these best sellers can only be checked out by one person at a time for two weeks.

OneClickDigital provides live toll-free technical support to patrons who need assistance with their product. Available Monday thru Friday 8:30 am to 7:00 pm (Eastern), call 1-877-772-8346.

Mobility

After you've created an account, download the OneClickdigital smartphone app for iPhones, iPads, & iPods or for Android. Or search iTunes or the Google Play store for OneClickdigital.

Librivox LibriVox is a repository of free audiobooks in the public domain. Titles are available as MP3 downloads or podcasts.

Podiobooks Podiobooks is an episodic audio rendition of free audiobooks as podcasts. You can receive podcasts as RSS feeds or download them directly. The number of categories is well covered from alternative history to chick lit and satire.

Open Culture Audiobooks are just one of the sections covered on this site which focuses on educational media collected from other sites. You get to download free courses from universities in MP3 format, language lessons as podcasts, and a variety of other podcasts that cover subjects like technology, travel, music, science, and more.

ThoughtAudio A free audiobook collection of classical works you can listen to online or download in segments. You can also view the written text of some of the books as a PDF download.

Storynory A free audiobook site especially for children where you can find classic children's stories like fairy tales, educational stories that cover The Bible or history, and lots of other original stuff. You can download a free audio story every week.

Librophile Librophile collects and displays eBooks mostly from LibriVox and Audible. Click on the Free button and then go through the listings. You can download the free audiobooks as a ZIP file, play it in your browser, or check it out as a readable eBook. Clicking on a title takes you to the Audible or LibriVox website.

AudioBooksForFree Mostly public domain books. MP3, iPOD and DVD audiobooks (adventures, detectives, horrors, classics, children, non-fictions, philosophy, etc.) for you to download and enjoy. Every audio book produced and recorded by professional actors/narrators and experienced directors. No computerised text-to-voice convertions have been used.

Learn Out Loud This site's catalog has 25,000 audio and video titles in a mixture of paid and free. You can click on the tab marked as Free Stuff to access the free audiobooks that are available for download with a right click.

NewFiction NewFiction offers a library of audiobooks that are performed by multiple actors - modern-day radio dramas they call iSoaps. Users can sign up for a daily installment that can be delivered to a computer, iPod, iPad, or Smartphone.

Project Gutenberg Project Gutenberg is the ongoing effort to digitize and archive cultural works in the form of eBooks. You can go through the list alphabetically for author and title. Audio books are also available in a number of languages. But the quicker way would be to use the Advanced Search page.

eBooks may not be renewed, but can be checked out again if available when the checkout period ends.

If a title is checked out, a request for the title may be placed. Request limit is 5 items.

3M Cloud eBooks are made possible by a grant given to Navajo County LIbrary District by the Arizona State Library, with funding through a Library Services and Technology Act grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services.

eBooks by Freading for Downloading

Navajo County Library District is pleased to offer eBooks through Freading. Freading has thousands of titles from independent or small publishers to download to your eReader. (Use 3M Cloud to access bestsellers). Freading™ has its own apps for the iPad® and iPhone®, and its own apps for Android™ tablets and phones. It is also compatible with the Kindle Fire, the Nook devices, and Kobo devices.

Click here or on the Freading Logo above to go to the Freading website to register with your patron library card, which you must have to use this service. Have fun and happy eReading!

The Arizona State Library, Archives and Public Records, in partnership with Arizona libraries, has a statewide ebook platform, Reading Arizona, which offers a curated collection of always available ebooks on Arizona topics and themes and features three types of content: contemporary ebooks acquired from publishers, content from self-published authors, and digitized out-of-copyright books and manuscripts. The project builds on a 2012 centennial project from Pima County Public Libraries mapping the literary landscape. Reading Arizona unites readers through our shared interest in Arizona herself.

Reading Arizona is brought to you by the Arizona State Library, with funding through a Library Services and Technology Act grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services.

Open Library eBooks

Open Library contains a database of over 20 million digitized books. Many can can be downloaded to your device. The eBooks are primarily written before 2000. Open Library welcomes donations of books to be digitized. Their goal is to have every book digitized eventually.

eMagazines for Download

Online Magazines!Navajo County Public Libraries offer over 110 full-image eZines through Zinio to download and read on your smartphone, tablet, or computer 24/7. You must create an account through the library's website first with your library card number (Click here). You will use this account to subscribe to magazines provided by your library. You will then need to create an account on the Zinio website in order to view or download your subscribed-to magazines (Click here). The username and password on these accounts may be the same, if you choose. You will receive a confirmation e-mail that your account is ready for you to start downloading magazines. There is no limit to the number of magazines you may subscribe to.

How to Read eBooks on Your Smartphone
Reading books on your smartphone can be very convenient. There are a variety of apps you can install that support different eBook formats. Android and iPhone are probably the most common, but even if you have a Windows Phone 6 or 7, Blackberry, WebOS, or Palm device you can still read eBooks on them.

Though this article is a few years old, it gives great information on what is available for different platforms. Feel free to contact our staff if you are unsure which software is best for you. We will do our best to help you start reading on the go.

Places to Find Free eBooks

Listed below are 15 sites to help you get started in your search for free eBooks.

Open Library - Arizona State Library and Navajo County public libraries participate in this free lending program.

3. Transfer it to your device. Most devices come with software for your computer. You just hook up your eReader using the cable that came with it. You may also prefer to use calibre, a free eBook manager and format convertor that works with most eReaders including Kindle, Nook, Kobo, Sony Reader, iPod/iPad, and various Android phones .

Note: If you want to use books from Freading.com you will be required to use Adobe Digital Editions which supports time limits and copy protection.

Other Resources

Check out this Unofficial Kindle Fire manual from MakeUseOf.com. If you like it, check out many other free manuals at MakeUseOf.com.